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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm at #NeuroFly Conference in Cologne this week! If you're here too, please say hi & see Kazi Ishrak Faiyaz and his poster at B19 The title of Ishrak's poster is Developing a circadian-disrupted Drosophila model to investigate and screen Alzheimer's therapeutics, based on his PhD work with me.

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Me and my poster at #182 at #ADPD2026 in Copenhagen! I'm having a great time! 😁

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

📣I had a chat with Teesside Postgraduate Society about my research and being a researcher! I was honoured to be asked and they did a great job. For my 1st podcast experience, it was great. 🙂 Thank you to everyone involved! Click the link to listen! 👂 open.spotify.com/episode/4kI5...

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Today is the 1st day of the PhD conference on drug development for AD (PhD4AD) in Heraklion in Crete at FORTH. This conference has been organised by our PhD students in the TClock4AD consortium. It's been great so far! Organisation is well done and talks really interesting and well-presented!

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ishraque348.bsky.social @ishraque348.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

PhD Conference on Drug Development for Alzheimer Disease (PhD4AD). 5th-7th of November 2025 in Heraklion, Greece. Registration is now open—reserve your spot today! Website: site.unibo.it/tclock4ad/en...

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PhD Conference on Drug Development for AD (PhD4AD). 5th-7th of November 2025 in Heraklion, Greece.

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Deepanshu Singh @deepanshund.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Big thanks to @clarahowcroft.bsky.social y.social, @toraks.bsky.social ks.bsky.social, @dpdoupe.bsky.social for organising the first NE Fly Meeting! It was inspiring to see the Northern Drosophila community come together with such warmth and energy. Here’s to more science, support, and shared ideas!

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Ines Hahn @exdrososcientia.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Thank you @clarahowcroft.bsky.social, @toraks.bsky.social and David Dupe for getting the Northern Drosophila community together and organising the first NE fly meeting. We had a wonderful time, thanks for creating such a lovely, supportive and enthusiastic spirit. See you soon!

The Hahn lab standing in front of poster boards, all laughing and smiling.

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Clara Howcroft Ferreira @clarahowcroft.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

It was a lovely first Fly North(East) meeting, diverse and supportive. Thank you all for sharing your science and the enthusiasm in strengthening our community. Thank you @gensocuk.bsky.social for the sponsorship that made it possible.

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We hosted the first North East Fly Meeting today! It was great to connect with people from all over as well as the local universities. A great learning and networking opportunity for us all! Sometimes it's just great to talk flies with all fly people! @clarahowcroft.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social

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Clara Howcroft Ferreira @clarahowcroft.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Featuring our keynote speaker @amandabretman.bsky.social and many members of northern fly groups @poppi62.bsky.social, @natsansor.bsky.social, @vincentcroset.bsky.social, @exdrososcientia.bsky.social, @wolfhuette.bsky.social, @stuartwigby.bsky.social, Marisa Merino, Alistair McGregor, Rebecca Clark.

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Clara Howcroft Ferreira @clarahowcroft.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It is already tomorrow, our first Fly North(East) England meeting at Northumbria University Newcastle! Co-organized with @toraks.bsky.social @dpdoupe.bsky.social. Looking forward to a day of bulding bridges and discussing how to nurture our network.

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Dr Cat Pschenyckyj @catofthebog.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Thrilled to be awarded the RGS-IBG Small Research Grant! Looking forward to some summer #fieldwork in the North York Moors to study the often overlooked shallow #peatland areas of our uplands and the many benefits they provide! #RGSgrants #RGS_IBG #peat #soilscience

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

✳️ I am recruiting for a fully funded BBSRC NEEDL PhD! ✴️ Create Drosophila (fruit fly) models to study mtDNA mutations in ageing & disease at Teesside Uni! ✅ With Newcastle Uni researchers Prof. Laura Greaves & Dr. James Stewart ! 🤝 📅 Due 12noon on 31st March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Investigating the roles of mtDNA mutations in ageing and disease at Teesside University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Investigating the roles of mtDNA mutations in ageing and disease at Teesside University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Barbara-Anne Robertson (she/her) @canuckinengland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We’re recruiting a PhD student, come and work with us @newcastleuni.bsky.social! This exciting interdisciplinary project applies the quantum formalism to model experimental observations of human emotional memory performance. #physics #psychology #emotions #neuroscience #quantum #quantumformalism

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Yay! I'm very excited that my ballot has been received in Pennsylvania! My 18yo son's too! It's a great feeling to vote! 😁❤️

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

This is what 50 looks like! 😀 Me at my 50th birthday party on the 5th of October - which was my actual birthday. 🥳🍾🎉

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Me and my poster at the NeuroFly Conference! I was so busy there, and same since I got back, so a long delay, but here we are! Mitochondria and Parkinson’s in a Drosophila model! Photo by Simona 🙂❤️ - an Instagram friend I met in person there 🙂

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,489,383!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,489,383, toraks.bsky.social ‪@toraks.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 13, 2023"

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Who else is going to @neurofly2024.bsky.social ? I'll be there all week and my poster is on Tuesday - mine's #45 (PD & mitos) & Ishrak's is #89 (AD & circadian rhythms) - he's doing his PhD with me. Looking forward to seeing everyone & their science soon! 🙂#NeuroFly2024

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

20 years ago, I graduated with my PhD! 🎉🥳 My defense was 13th of Nov 2003, but I went to the Duke graduation ceremonies May 2004 I refreshed my lipstick & a newspaper man asked if he could use my picture! 😀 Madeleine Albright's picture & Duke basketball players are smaller! 😲

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Join us for @pintofscience.bsky.social Darlington tonight! 🍻😊 There are still some tickets! pintofscience.co.uk/event/health... Tuesday 14th May - Prof John S. Young, Dr Tora Smulders-Srinivasan, Dr Marc Moore #teessideuni #Pint24 #DarlingtonPint #PintOfScience

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

I'm doing @pintofscience.bsky.social 🍻on 14 May in Darlington! Excited to do the 1st event in Darlington - the venue is near the National Horizons Centre where I do my research, so that makes sense! See details of my talk & the others & book tickets: pintofscience.co.uk/event/health... #pint24

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Healthcare Heroes

Come and quench your thirst for knowledge at Darlington's first Pint of Science event! <br /> <br /> The Healthcare Heroes evening will be themed on 'Our Body'.

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Dr. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan @toraks.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

I made it to the FameLab North East Regional Final using this video talking about my scientific research! It's tomorrow 13th April at Teesside! I hope it goes well 🙂 I thought I'd share this, since it's an okay non-scientific summary of my research 🙂 youtu.be/duZWazRxRMk?...

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